Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A thick sticky slippery substance.
- n. Biology A mucous substance secreted by certain animals, such as catfishes and slugs.
- n. Soft moist earth; mud.
- n. A slurry containing very fine particulate matter.
- n. Vile or disgusting matter.
- n. Slang A despicable or repulsive person.
- transitive v. To smear with slime.
- transitive v. To remove slime from (fish to be canned, for example).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
- n. Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.
- n. Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.
- n. = Jew’s slime (bitumen)
- v. To coat with slime.
- v. To besmirch or disparage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud.
- n. Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.
- n. Bitumen.
- n. Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
- n. A mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals.
- transitive v. To smear with slime.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Any soft, ropy, glutinous, or viscous substance.
- n. Asphalt or bitumen.
- n. A mucous, viscous, or glutinous substance exuded from the bodies of certain animals, notably fishes and mollusks: as, the slime of a snail. In some cases this slime is the secretion of a special gland, and it may on hardening form a sort of operculum. See slime-gland, clausiliumt and hibernaculum, 3 .
- n. Figuratively, anything of a clinging and offensive nature; cringing or fawning words or actions.
- n. In metallurgy, ore reduced to a very fine powder and held in suspension in water, so as to form a kind of thin ore-mud: generally used in the plural.
- To cover with or as with slime; make slimy.
- To remove slime from, as fish for canning.
- To become slimy: acquire slime.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. any thick, viscous matter
- v. cover or stain with slime
Etymologies
Examples
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I didnt see any strings on the rocket ship, but when you see the plastic slime inching up the ramp toward our crew, you know its a plastic sheet of slime, and the freaky tie-dye technique with the Venus sky is pure 1960s state of the art.
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They warned the Clinton campaign against engaging in what they called slime politics and Obama told reporters he won't be swift-boated.
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Now that is what I call a slime-ball but the sheepherders signed a contract knowing the terms.
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Standing in slime, struggling with machines that don't work, hosted by merchants who don't care -- this isn't fair to the Oregon consumer who just wants to do the right thing.
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Mr. Wilson, standing butt naked and covered from head to toe in slime before a joint meeting of Congress, should apologise to the President and the American people for his crude and childish behavior.
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Steele might as well have said “slime is not a crime”.
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Covered in slime, the pirate fisherman slumps on the ground.
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Jackson will probably love the chance to be covered in slime!!
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Game of Life says: repugs constituents as dumber than slime from a hagfish.
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But saints in slime - ah, that was the everlasting wonder!
mollusque commented on the word slime
He dreamed of mellowing his pigments as the Old Masters had done--with honey, fig juice, poppy oil, and the slime of pink snails.
--Vladimir Nabokov, 1957, Pnin, p. 67
November 16, 2007